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reagan, richard nixon, gerald ford. mitt romney reinforces the republican stereotyped as the rich taking care of the rich and only caring about the rich. he has got to break out of that. >> thanks very much. enjoy your weekend. see you next week. announcer: the new pbs for ipad app.
reagan, richard nixon, gerald ford. mitt romney reinforces the republican stereotyped as the rich taking care of the rich and only caring about the rich. he has got to break out of that. >> thanks very much. enjoy your weekend. see you next week. announcer: the new pbs for ipad app.
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that's the traditional -- and ronald reagan's name kept coming up again and again. so it's as if they're trying to claim -- cling to the same old -- old meaning familiar -- kind of mantra. but what also surprised me was that bush and cheney among conservatives are back, right? >> they're back. >> they're back. >> popular, happy to see them? >> politics is compared to what. and for 2010, the republicans i talked to say we don't need a big plan for 2010. being against barack obama right now and the democrats in congress, against nancy pelosi, that's enough for us right now. they're going to have to get beyond that after 2010. and see if they win a majority. gwen: and see how much anti really works. at this table we always try to make the link between politics and policy. and as the nation's economy struggles to recover, we got to see this week how profound political differences can translate to real policy difference, too. to hear democratic party chairman tim kaine tell it, the president's stimulus package was a soaring victory. >> the stimulus has done pretty much e
that's the traditional -- and ronald reagan's name kept coming up again and again. so it's as if they're trying to claim -- cling to the same old -- old meaning familiar -- kind of mantra. but what also surprised me was that bush and cheney among conservatives are back, right? >> they're back. >> they're back. >> popular, happy to see them? >> politics is compared to what. and for 2010, the republicans i talked to say we don't need a big plan for 2010. being against...
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reagan did ronald reagan was the antithesis of the tea party. he colluded, conspired, cooperated to o'neill -- with tip o'neill, the democratic speaker, to sit social security in 1983. having seen what happened with the tax cuts in 1981, he signed the largest tax increase in history because he was worried about the budget deficit. the cardinal principle of it tea party, according to stanley greenberg and this survey, is that any cooperation with the other side is viewed as treason. this is not good for democracy. this is unhealthy for democracy of any sort. >> i admire your retroactive admiration of ronald reagan. he was a guy so conservative that he opposed the return of the panama canal, for god's sake. that somehow he was a closet liberal -- he was so right wing in 1980's the even conservatives were worried about his election. to paint him as kind of a moderate is completely wrong. >> you are not addressing the point that mark made. >> last word. see you next week. for a transcript of this broadcast, log on to insidewashington.tv.
reagan did ronald reagan was the antithesis of the tea party. he colluded, conspired, cooperated to o'neill -- with tip o'neill, the democratic speaker, to sit social security in 1983. having seen what happened with the tax cuts in 1981, he signed the largest tax increase in history because he was worried about the budget deficit. the cardinal principle of it tea party, according to stanley greenberg and this survey, is that any cooperation with the other side is viewed as treason. this is not...
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>> ever president in modern times, going i think in model reagan -- ronald reagan -- george w. bush, we're going to make a switch grass into oil. this was not much better and i stopped paying attention. >> the gas tax -- you have to have a big revenue jump on energy or nothing good happens. >> charles has been talking about this or as long as i have known him. >> 1983, my first piece on that i have given up. >> i guess i've been around longer. richard nixon was the first on this. >> you are right. >> it might have been the same teleprompter. [laughter] energy independence, nationalism has become some of the underlying premise -- >> i would make two points. it looks as if the president's policy on oil is a drill in brazil. second, he said that we would cut oil imports by one/league starting from the day of my swearing in. why did he take that day? today we import 9.7 million barrels because of recession. he has not lifted a finger. the man is hope and change. [laughter] >> no comment. >> they want to shut the government down and turn you into their scapegoat and to say is that t
>> ever president in modern times, going i think in model reagan -- ronald reagan -- george w. bush, we're going to make a switch grass into oil. this was not much better and i stopped paying attention. >> the gas tax -- you have to have a big revenue jump on energy or nothing good happens. >> charles has been talking about this or as long as i have known him. >> 1983, my first piece on that i have given up. >> i guess i've been around longer. richard nixon was the...
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ronald reagan's charm was a... the practiced charm of somebody who is a professional actor for decades before he got to the presidency. and it was an easy, warm charm. he doesn't have the hot embrace and the arm around the back of bill clinton. he's a much cooler, more diffident, unsentimental political actor. that said, he has his own talents, and one of his great talents-- and it was a developed talent, he didn't have it right off the bat, it took hundreds and hundreds of speeches-- was the ability to go into a certain kind of environment, whether it's a near north side living room with one kind of crowd or black church on the south side of chicago or any other environment and be himself but be a shape shifter just enough so that the vocabulary, the references and the cadences work in that way. >> rose: i think many of us who have multiple experiences have that ability. >> absolutely. martin luther king, the greatest speaker of all, had that capacity. he could make references to reinhold nearbyer and buber and al
ronald reagan's charm was a... the practiced charm of somebody who is a professional actor for decades before he got to the presidency. and it was an easy, warm charm. he doesn't have the hot embrace and the arm around the back of bill clinton. he's a much cooler, more diffident, unsentimental political actor. that said, he has his own talents, and one of his great talents-- and it was a developed talent, he didn't have it right off the bat, it took hundreds and hundreds of speeches-- was the...
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it was one of the reasons, for example, that in 1980 the weekend before ronald reagan's election against jimmy carter, when everybody thought that was going to be -- everybody here in washington thought that was going to be a close election, and when his own newspaper polled, "the washington post's" poll showed carter slightly ahead in the national vote, broder wrote a front-page piece saying, it looks to me as if ronald reagan is going to win this thing. and it was an act of brilliance -- gwen: defiance? >> courage. courage on the part of the editors. but the important thing for david was, he was right. >> the thing about david too was that in politics, he was a political reporter but he was never -- politics to him was never a game. it was never about keeping score. and if he had a true bias, it was that he wanted to see things work. i keep on my desk at the office a copy of a book that he wrote with his colleague johnson called "the system." it was the most remarkable behind-the-scenes look at the failed clinton health care effort in 1994. but it was really extraordinary in that as yo
it was one of the reasons, for example, that in 1980 the weekend before ronald reagan's election against jimmy carter, when everybody thought that was going to be -- everybody here in washington thought that was going to be a close election, and when his own newspaper polled, "the washington post's" poll showed carter slightly ahead in the national vote, broder wrote a front-page piece saying, it looks to me as if ronald reagan is going to win this thing. and it was an act of...
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tony kennedy -- thank you, ronald reagan. >> former defense secretary donald rumsfeld has written a memoir entitled "known and unknown." regrets, he said a few. he said "we know where they are" with respect to weapons of mass destruction in iraq. he has, i gather, no real regrets. "at saddam hussein remained in power, the middle east would be far more perilous than it is today." >> it is a defense of the book. what else would we expect it donald rumsfeld to write? he's being a defense of human being. he does score some points against other people. he's actually read that the whole process broke down, that condoleezza rice did not do a good job, that colin powell was not as assertive as he might have been. >> how can you blame colin powell for not being assertive enough when you just take them in the proverbial groin and nature he could not walk? -- and made sure he cannot walk? >> i am a big fan of colin powell, but i think historians will go back and see a period where they wished that colin powell had been more assertive about going -- >> he says that president bush asked for plants diff
tony kennedy -- thank you, ronald reagan. >> former defense secretary donald rumsfeld has written a memoir entitled "known and unknown." regrets, he said a few. he said "we know where they are" with respect to weapons of mass destruction in iraq. he has, i gather, no real regrets. "at saddam hussein remained in power, the middle east would be far more perilous than it is today." >> it is a defense of the book. what else would we expect it donald...
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if obama will seize it, could have, lik -- you could have a moment like ronald reagan and bill bradley and tip o'neill and get it done. >> the people in this poll are opposed to cuts in social security. the only thing they are far is -- for is soaking the rich. >> you can do that a little bit, but you cannot balance the budget by soaking the rich you have to cut government spending and do things differently. the minute you talk about health care, everybody says, "well, don't ration health care." well, that is how you get health care costs under control, having standards that you hold people to. >> larry summers says that if they don't pass this, we will go right back into recession. do you agree, colby? >> they bring him out to do that just to scare people. they did not have to do that. that is my concern about how this gets negotiated. there'll be another chapter here, that this will hold -- will not hold, that what obama has done with mitch mcconnell will not hold, because you will shift to another position. for example, he talks about this deal as a framework now. it is now offering
if obama will seize it, could have, lik -- you could have a moment like ronald reagan and bill bradley and tip o'neill and get it done. >> the people in this poll are opposed to cuts in social security. the only thing they are far is -- for is soaking the rich. >> you can do that a little bit, but you cannot balance the budget by soaking the rich you have to cut government spending and do things differently. the minute you talk about health care, everybody says, "well, don't...
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. >> rose: and ronald reagan. >> and ronald reagan. >> rose: but has barack obama done that or failed to do that? >> well, i think he has not done that in part because he's historically had trouble getting independents, and especially white independents in places like indiana. and you began to see a huge shift in april. it was april to june that his ratings among independents dropped 15%. the number who said he was a liberal rose 18%. so he lost them then. then another shift in december. so there were these two big shifts and he sort of lost what he'd had was the connection that i am something new and he lost that. >> rose: even though he says the same people... the people who elected scott brown were voting for change in the same way that the people who elected him... >> that's not credible. scott brown was running against barack obama. and... >> rose: health care and barack obama. >> i mean, it's... to the extent that there is a free floating desire to have something new and it floated to barack obama thinking it was this and it floated to scott brown, there's some continuity there.
. >> rose: and ronald reagan. >> and ronald reagan. >> rose: but has barack obama done that or failed to do that? >> well, i think he has not done that in part because he's historically had trouble getting independents, and especially white independents in places like indiana. and you began to see a huge shift in april. it was april to june that his ratings among independents dropped 15%. the number who said he was a liberal rose 18%. so he lost them then. then another...
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ronald reagan in 1984 lost his train of thought if his first statement. gwen: on the pacific coast highway. >> right. and it gave rise to questions as if he was too old. this was a case that i thought from start to finish governor romney was the dominant character in the debate. he was much more forceful so in that sense its it was a much more decisive ca of seby someb losing. >> there wasn't that single moment that memorable you're no jack kennedy kind of putdown. it was very strong substantive. in fact, the president said this was afic he might not have thought that later whether he got to reviews. >> if you look at romney's opening statements, he touched alheeed to. he talked about voters in ohio and nevada. i feel your pain. gwen: told stories. >> told stories. he did the five things he's running on. he talked about the president's past. respectfully said it wasn't going in the right direction. then 0 minutes later after a good cut and thrust between the two of them he delivered a near-flawless closing argument as if he were reading from a teleprompte
ronald reagan in 1984 lost his train of thought if his first statement. gwen: on the pacific coast highway. >> right. and it gave rise to questions as if he was too old. this was a case that i thought from start to finish governor romney was the dominant character in the debate. he was much more forceful so in that sense its it was a much more decisive ca of seby someb losing. >> there wasn't that single moment that memorable you're no jack kennedy kind of putdown. it was very...
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did ronald reagan represent it? or was ronald reagan a new conservatism that in a sense marked the end of an old conservatism and marked a group of people within a party taking over. >> well, a lot of this is hard to untangle though i try to do hit in the book. i'll lay it out as best i can. if you look at that period when the modern conservative movement took shape which was after world war ii, that is, the ideas were percolating during the roosevelt years. here was a man also who ran for president four times. >> rose: right. >> something unthinkable and, in fact, illegal now. we would look back at him and say "this is someone who overreached." on the other hand, he did it through the democratic process. so the right sets itself up in opposition to him. they get their first chance in 1952. remember, in the decades of the 1930s and 1940s, this country did not elect a single republican president. five democratic presidents in a row. and 1952 the student comes. dwight eisenhower. >> rose: they have a national hero. ju
did ronald reagan represent it? or was ronald reagan a new conservatism that in a sense marked the end of an old conservatism and marked a group of people within a party taking over. >> well, a lot of this is hard to untangle though i try to do hit in the book. i'll lay it out as best i can. if you look at that period when the modern conservative movement took shape which was after world war ii, that is, the ideas were percolating during the roosevelt years. here was a man also who ran...
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march 20, 1984, president ronald reagan. so, ronald reagan with a food stamp president but newt gingrich is distancing himself from him? >> he argues the case worse than that. he says i want to teach african americans to have jobs over food stamps. better to get a paid job. that has never been an issue. there are people who are working, low incomes, who are getting food stamps. he knows better. he also knows how to play this thing. he knows how to use the code. and in south carolina especially, race matters. >> whatever he is doing, he is surging. >> he is surging. newt knows how to play this game. as charles said, he is in his own backyard, next to georgia, and he is incredibly good. it does not matter there are more people on food stamps under george w. bush, does not matter that his suggestion is minorities are the ones to get food stamps -- far more white people get food stamps. it does not matter that working people get food stamps in order to feed their family. facts don't matter to him, and it makes for great talk. >>
march 20, 1984, president ronald reagan. so, ronald reagan with a food stamp president but newt gingrich is distancing himself from him? >> he argues the case worse than that. he says i want to teach african americans to have jobs over food stamps. better to get a paid job. that has never been an issue. there are people who are working, low incomes, who are getting food stamps. he knows better. he also knows how to play this thing. he knows how to use the code. and in south carolina...
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when ronald reagan said that latinos were naturally republican, he met that they were aspirational and socially conservative. mitt romney seems to turn them off. he backed a law in arizona which some said was racial profiling. he called for a high-tech fence along the mexican border and struck a hard note talking about illegal immigrants. >> the answer is self deportation, people decide that they can do better work here because they don't have legal documentation. >> the campaign has put on a burst of speed, intensely targeting latinos, especially in swing states like colorado. the latest poll gives obama 70% of the hispanic vote. romney has backpedaled and the written policy with a much softer focus on illegal immigration. some say this is a chance to touch home the new message. >> throw away the rhetoric, the language that turns people off, and talk about it in a real leadership way. >> as night falls, the intense preparations are at an end. they will soon face each other for a debate but some say will shake up the race for the white house. >> so, how significant is tonight's debate?
when ronald reagan said that latinos were naturally republican, he met that they were aspirational and socially conservative. mitt romney seems to turn them off. he backed a law in arizona which some said was racial profiling. he called for a high-tech fence along the mexican border and struck a hard note talking about illegal immigrants. >> the answer is self deportation, people decide that they can do better work here because they don't have legal documentation. >> the campaign...
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ronald reagan lost 26 seats in 1982 and went and won 49 states and 84 -- >> and clinton as well. >> he suffered a hemorrhaging. these are the twin and divergent interests within the democratic party. >> one thing about the stimulus package and what is going on now. all the republicans in the house voted against the stimulus package. but if you look at the press releases, at least 50 members of the republican party to put in their press release and taking credit for projects in their district under the stimulus package, for bringing home the bacon. criticism on the one hand -- and hypocrisy. >> polls are showing he is losing independence and one of the big concerns it is deficit. the reason he is suffering is he saw the crisis as an opportunity and he defined opportunity as expansion of government, expansion of spending and debt and that is why he is getting the black. >> he did not say expansion of debt -- a great opportunity? >> stimulus, health care, cap- and-trade -- all of which are expansions of government and that is why he is getting the ball back. >> the president plans to make
ronald reagan lost 26 seats in 1982 and went and won 49 states and 84 -- >> and clinton as well. >> he suffered a hemorrhaging. these are the twin and divergent interests within the democratic party. >> one thing about the stimulus package and what is going on now. all the republicans in the house voted against the stimulus package. but if you look at the press releases, at least 50 members of the republican party to put in their press release and taking credit for projects in...
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and embraced by ronald reagan, totally outlawed torture. that is the complication. the division emergencs politicay between those who served and those who did not. when you get general saakashvili and general job corps and john mccain saying it is about war. i think we have to listen to them. >> some final thoughts on ted kennedy's death. >> ted kennedy was an individual with thousands of best friends. you talk to people and they will relate to you especially individual relationship that they had dreaded we know what he did for that -- that they had. we know what he did for the country, what he did for the world. but oftentimes, those acts of charity that he did in the time that he had here on earth were never noticed. there was not a tv camera, he still photographer, was a reporter. >> thousands of unreported acts of kindness. >> there are incredible stories. you know, one staffer, his father was dying of brain cancer, kennedy went on a plane and went to see the father and told him what a great job that the son was doing and then sat with the sun for a couple of ho
and embraced by ronald reagan, totally outlawed torture. that is the complication. the division emergencs politicay between those who served and those who did not. when you get general saakashvili and general job corps and john mccain saying it is about war. i think we have to listen to them. >> some final thoughts on ted kennedy's death. >> ted kennedy was an individual with thousands of best friends. you talk to people and they will relate to you especially individual relationship...
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but the kind of organic connection you found with ronald reagan or george h.w. bush and george w. bush is it of is not there. you could hear it in the way the different speakers spoke about romney's biography. it was all from a kind of cheat sheet, the same thing. but there was very little i thought truly authentic-- this is the guy. so there is a tension there. and is romney the last of something? you know, a certain generation of really northern liberal republicans? he's now posing as something more conservative. and is-- is ryan the future? or-- and i think it will depend on the election-- if the republicans get smashed in this election-- if you look at the polling now, it's unlikely, but who knows -- do they go through the kind of soul-searching the democrats went through in the late 80s and 90s that gave birth to bill clinton and the whole centrist democrat movement? it's going to be interesting to watch. >> rose: you think there's a possibility if the republicans are defeated badly, they may say we have to rebuild a different party. and that party might look to itself and sa
but the kind of organic connection you found with ronald reagan or george h.w. bush and george w. bush is it of is not there. you could hear it in the way the different speakers spoke about romney's biography. it was all from a kind of cheat sheet, the same thing. but there was very little i thought truly authentic-- this is the guy. so there is a tension there. and is romney the last of something? you know, a certain generation of really northern liberal republicans? he's now posing as...
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that will take you right to a page for ronald reagan vs. jimmy carter. the commercials are 30 seconds or a minute that they summarize what was going on in the campaign to tell us what the main issues are. they were not intended to last as a historical record or if you look at years and years later. these are really important historical archives. >> these were made for the obama campaign. >> a democratic cookie cutter. >> what you see behind us is just a sampling of some of the material that we collected from the last two conventions. >> it is on a table in a room that is our reference collection. full complete collection of the record for american politics and it goes back to george washington. >> this whole row of materials is made up of campaign buttons. this is from the mckinley campaign from 1896 until 1900. >> every four years ago out on the campaign trail and rebuild it out with contemporary material. >> some of these were passed by a local delegation. you go to the local primaries and we go to the national convention. it is the buttons, the poster
that will take you right to a page for ronald reagan vs. jimmy carter. the commercials are 30 seconds or a minute that they summarize what was going on in the campaign to tell us what the main issues are. they were not intended to last as a historical record or if you look at years and years later. these are really important historical archives. >> these were made for the obama campaign. >> a democratic cookie cutter. >> what you see behind us is just a sampling of some of the...
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ken duberstein served as ronald reagan's chief of staff from 1988 to 1989. he is chairman & ceo of the duberstein group. i am pleased to have both of them back on this program. so where do you think he is, john? >> well, look, i think he's gotten, first of all he inherited an enormous financial crisis. and economic crisis when he came into office. and he set about, i think, trying to lay the foundation for long-term economic success and the success of his presidency. and on that score i would say that he's doing, you know, he's done substantially well, better than any president in recent history. i think that the passing of the recovery act that saved or created a couple million jobs. passing financial regulatory reform, health-care reform, those are foundational elements but he's paid a price in doing. he used up a lot of capital and i think his polling numbers reflect the fact that he's been engaged in that enterprise of passing that big legislation. if the economy recovers as i think will, if jobs start growing, like president reagan, like president clint
ken duberstein served as ronald reagan's chief of staff from 1988 to 1989. he is chairman & ceo of the duberstein group. i am pleased to have both of them back on this program. so where do you think he is, john? >> well, look, i think he's gotten, first of all he inherited an enormous financial crisis. and economic crisis when he came into office. and he set about, i think, trying to lay the foundation for long-term economic success and the success of his presidency. and on that score...
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and republicans since ronald reagan have been really good at that. >> and -- >> saul alinsky -- saul alinsky -- saul alinsky -- saul alinsky -- saul alinsky-- >> who was the real saul alinsky? >> our power has always gone into two areas, those who have money and those who have people. we have nothing but people. >> welcome. people i meet on the left, on the right and in the middle agree on one thing: our country is in a mess, and our politics are not making it better. the problems seem in seizure insurmountable, three times last year congress came close to shutting down the government. in august, we almost defaulted on our more than $14 trillion debt, which could skyrocket even further if the bush tax cuts are continued and spending is untouched at year's end. but as the ship of state is sinking, the crew is at each other's throats, too busy fighting to plug the holes and pump out the water. and everything's been made rotten by the toxic rancor and demonizing that have shredded civil discourse and devastated our ability to govern ourselves. just look at the ugliness of the election c
and republicans since ronald reagan have been really good at that. >> and -- >> saul alinsky -- saul alinsky -- saul alinsky -- saul alinsky -- saul alinsky-- >> who was the real saul alinsky? >> our power has always gone into two areas, those who have money and those who have people. we have nothing but people. >> welcome. people i meet on the left, on the right and in the middle agree on one thing: our country is in a mess, and our politics are not making it...
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ronald reagan was -- got elected, nobody took the guy seriously. how can you elect a buffoon who thinks air pollution comes from plants and trees? those three events, those three punches in a row, robbed liberals of their self-confidence. of since then they haven't really been able to make their case in a full throated way. whenever a conservative says, a, a liberal says, maybe a, maybe b, possibly a little c. it's hard for any politician, if you think the most conservative politicians in our society, you know, people like demint -- >> senator jim demint, south carolina. >> yeah. and rick santorum. compare them to the most liberal, people like barney frank, or george mcgovern, i admire barney frank and george. >> mike: govemcgovern, but thin modern people, not demagogic in any way. >> liberals don't have the instinct to fight? >> number one, they've lost their self-confidence and two, to a degree hampered by their own recognition of complexity. listen to limbaugh and buchanan, everything is simple. here's what we've got to do, but if you listen to
ronald reagan was -- got elected, nobody took the guy seriously. how can you elect a buffoon who thinks air pollution comes from plants and trees? those three events, those three punches in a row, robbed liberals of their self-confidence. of since then they haven't really been able to make their case in a full throated way. whenever a conservative says, a, a liberal says, maybe a, maybe b, possibly a little c. it's hard for any politician, if you think the most conservative politicians in our...
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. >> moyers: we have ronald reagan's announcement, when he's launching the war on drugs. let's take a look at it. >> we can put drug abuse on the run through stronger law enforcement, through cooperation with other nations to stop the trafficking, and by calling on the tremendous volunteer resources of parents, teachers, civic and religious leaders, and state and local officials. we're rejecting the helpless attitude that drug use is so rampant that we're defenseless to do anything about it. we're taking down the surrender flag that has flown over so many drug efforts; we're running up a battle flag. >> the drug war was part of the republican party's kind of grand strategy, now known as the southern strategy, to use racially coded political appeals on issues of crime and welfare in order to appeal to poor and working class white voters who were resentful of and disaffected by many of the gains of the civil rights movement. folks who were upset by bussing. desegregation and affirmative action. the republican party strategists, you know, openly talked about the need to use
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so this guy like ronald reagan is very lucky and like ronald reagan has an unbelievable tefn coating so far as mark said. but we'll see what that spotlight does over the course othe next four weeks. >> rose: to romney, mark i have in front of me your grading of the debate last night. a minus for mitt romney. b plus for michele bachmann, pawlenty b. huntsman c plus, gingrich c plus, sanatorium you gave a c. ron paul you gave a c minus, cain you gave a c minus. romney, give us a sense of this campaign which is almost a stealth campaign with much focus on organization and money. >> romney has purposefully laid low. he's done very few events this year. extraordinarily few number of events. and he's purposefully focused on being in the conversation when it suits his purposes but not bein dragged into every little debate or even every big debate. the debate on the debt ceiling, for instance, he laid low. as i said before he is a better candidate but he still has a glass jaw. and although he is the obvious and clear front runner right now, he is a weak front-runner. his support is neither d
so this guy like ronald reagan is very lucky and like ronald reagan has an unbelievable tefn coating so far as mark said. but we'll see what that spotlight does over the course othe next four weeks. >> rose: to romney, mark i have in front of me your grading of the debate last night. a minus for mitt romney. b plus for michele bachmann, pawlenty b. huntsman c plus, gingrich c plus, sanatorium you gave a c. ron paul you gave a c minus, cain you gave a c minus. romney, give us a sense of...
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. >> president ronald reagan celebrating getting elected for a second term in 1984. >> tonight is the end of nothing, this is the beginning of everything. >> two years earlier, that victory looked far from certain. his popularity has plummeted and his approval rating set at 42%, less than what obama has now. then in the midterms, the democrats don't back into the house. yet, the republican president reached out to them and the economy came roaring back to health. he was swept to a second term with 50% of the popular vote. in 1994, bill clinton seemed destined become a one-term president. the democrats lost 52 house seats, nine senate seats, and 10 governorships. two years later, he was able to win the white house. the question is, what can president obama do now to save his presidency and what can he learned from reagan and clinton in order to secure a second term in 2012? >> i have been speaking to the editor of slate.com and i asked him if he thought that president obama could bounce back from this. bill clinton is the relevant comparison. he suffered an even bigger setback. he lost
. >> president ronald reagan celebrating getting elected for a second term in 1984. >> tonight is the end of nothing, this is the beginning of everything. >> two years earlier, that victory looked far from certain. his popularity has plummeted and his approval rating set at 42%, less than what obama has now. then in the midterms, the democrats don't back into the house. yet, the republican president reached out to them and the economy came roaring back to health. he was swept...
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. >> ronald reagan. >> exactly. i haven't quite heard a candidate for president speak so derisively about such a large group of americans. >> there are some republicans who heard that and said that's exactly right. so in some sense it doesn't heard him tremendously with his base except for the columnists who came out. mike gerson. he's lost the columnists. but in that video he talked about the independents. the people disappointed with barack obama, the swing voters. those are the voters who like to see candidates to care about the other side. work with the other side, not write off the other side and who are the ones who have had trouble making this connection. and now they're seeing a person with whom it's going to be hard to connect. gwen: as we look in the polls, we see, especially in battleground states that the gap is increasing in places like virginia and iowa where this was supposed to be a real fight to the finish and now watching where he says he's going to go -- they all go back to ohio. but a lot of thes
. >> ronald reagan. >> exactly. i haven't quite heard a candidate for president speak so derisively about such a large group of americans. >> there are some republicans who heard that and said that's exactly right. so in some sense it doesn't heard him tremendously with his base except for the columnists who came out. mike gerson. he's lost the columnists. but in that video he talked about the independents. the people disappointed with barack obama, the swing voters. those are...
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and you know, romney's problem is that he's not ronald reagan. reagan was really comfortable, you know, living in people's kitchens. >> rose: with all this money and all the television ads that can be done, can they change that? let's assume a good political campaign, a good speech at the convention, let's assume a great keynote as obama had in 2004, could that start something that has the america public redefine mitt romney. >> yes, but it's going to require perfection. and also on the-- ad front it will require ads that break out. most of these ads you have seen from the outside groups and republican side and mitt romney's campaign have largely focused on the economy is terrible or solindra or some version of-- people already know the economy is bad. they don't need a political ad that reminded them of that. those all blend together. we only add on the republican side is one from the rnc nip expenditure which focused on disappointment and it's okay to make a change. >> rose: how about are you better off today than you were four years ago. >> i
and you know, romney's problem is that he's not ronald reagan. reagan was really comfortable, you know, living in people's kitchens. >> rose: with all this money and all the television ads that can be done, can they change that? let's assume a good political campaign, a good speech at the convention, let's assume a great keynote as obama had in 2004, could that start something that has the america public redefine mitt romney. >> yes, but it's going to require perfection. and also on...
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. >> ronald reagan and i created all these jobs. i worked with bill clinton on welfare reform and all that you talk to a lot of main stream establishment republicans, they don't buy it. they are very alarmed. they feel that gingrich would not do well against barack obama and they are alarmed, i think, some of them knave. i think that's why you'll keep seeing these surrogates for mate mitt romney saying look, i was with this guy in congress, he got thrown out by his own people. gwen: rick santorum went after him. >> but newt gingrich's basic argument is that if you want to win in the fall, you need the clearest contrast possible with barack obama. i don't know that this argument is going to sell but that's where he's going. >> the other thing that gets lost is newt gingrich is this huge national figure because of his time as speaker but he's never won a statewide race. >> and he struggled to win his own re-election in his own district. i think rick santorum may have a bigger electability argument because he speaks with this populist
. >> ronald reagan and i created all these jobs. i worked with bill clinton on welfare reform and all that you talk to a lot of main stream establishment republicans, they don't buy it. they are very alarmed. they feel that gingrich would not do well against barack obama and they are alarmed, i think, some of them knave. i think that's why you'll keep seeing these surrogates for mate mitt romney saying look, i was with this guy in congress, he got thrown out by his own people. gwen: rick...
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reagan, by the way, aided by ronald reagan to basically say people who are suffering from mental illness it's up to them to make the choices for their own lives. and one understands that impulse but if they're refusing to take medications, if they're left out in the street very often they're put in jail, huge numbers of people with severe mental illnesses because we don't have mental hospitals or whatever, we just stick them in jail. where they're a danger to themselves and to their fellow inmates. and so the treatment of people with severe mental illness who are being untreated is a great crime in this country. and various people... i remember patrick kennedy, various other people have tried to raise this in the political sphere but relatively little effect. and it's a very controversial issue in the health care debate but this would be, i think, a reminder to really pay attention to those issues. >> that is a theme where he could have... divorce it entirely from the politics of the moment because all americans have been affected by this more schoolyard shootings than we can remember. w
reagan, by the way, aided by ronald reagan to basically say people who are suffering from mental illness it's up to them to make the choices for their own lives. and one understands that impulse but if they're refusing to take medications, if they're left out in the street very often they're put in jail, huge numbers of people with severe mental illnesses because we don't have mental hospitals or whatever, we just stick them in jail. where they're a danger to themselves and to their fellow...
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today ronald reagan goes up and cuts a deal with tip o'neill, if sean than hahnty didn't like it, by the time they get back to the white house or rachel maddow doesn't like it, the deal is undone. that's the difference today. >> woodruff: david axelrod acknowledges the polarized capital has forced mr. obama to change the way he governs. >> we learned from some of the obstacles that we faced during the debt ceiling debacle that we needed to take these issues to the outside and really enlist the american people and make sure that they thoroughly were engaged in the discussion. that's why we were able to pass the payroll tax cut the republicans first resisted because the american people got involved. >> woodruff: davis, however, is not optimistic that any real change in the political climate is possible even if the president enlists more public support. >> the republican base is rabid against obama. he may win reelection but the republican base is just rabid. it's unlikely to change and not tolerate those kind of compromises. the republican leaders have to factor that in when they sit d
today ronald reagan goes up and cuts a deal with tip o'neill, if sean than hahnty didn't like it, by the time they get back to the white house or rachel maddow doesn't like it, the deal is undone. that's the difference today. >> woodruff: david axelrod acknowledges the polarized capital has forced mr. obama to change the way he governs. >> we learned from some of the obstacles that we faced during the debt ceiling debacle that we needed to take these issues to the outside and really...
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one reagan. george w. bush and tony blair. -- ronald reagan. but under tony blair and barack obama, that has evaporated -- but under gordon brown and barack obama, that has evaporated. >> but what about the election battle taking place today across the atlantic? for many americans, it is not really on the agenda. >> americans do not seem to be as sophisticated as they once were, and as interested in the release substantive issues that make the rest of the world go round. so i do not know if they are as closely attuned to the current elections. >> the crowd has asked us to come forward. >> so how much do they need us or notice us today? a good two centuries on from the revolutionary war, it is america that is short of its pre- eminence -- is sure of its pre- eminence. philippa thomas, bbc news, washington. >> high hopes the country could put the bitter divisions of the apartheid era behind it. the killing of a leader has raised fresso questions -- fresh questions. some talk of a race war brewing. is that justified? we investigate. >> racial tens
one reagan. george w. bush and tony blair. -- ronald reagan. but under tony blair and barack obama, that has evaporated -- but under gordon brown and barack obama, that has evaporated. >> but what about the election battle taking place today across the atlantic? for many americans, it is not really on the agenda. >> americans do not seem to be as sophisticated as they once were, and as interested in the release substantive issues that make the rest of the world go round. so i do not...
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every president from ronald reagan forward has embraced the corporate search for cheap labor. that has meant rewards for haiti's upper class while ordinary people were pushed further and further into squalor. haitian contractors producing mickey mouse and pocahontas pajamas for american companies under license with the walt disney company paid their sweat shop workers as little as $1 a day, while women sewing dresses for k-mart earned eleven cents an hour. a report by the national labor committee found haitian women who had worked 50 days straight, up to 70 hours a week, without a day off. if that doesn't impact the tradition of child rearing and lead to social distrust, i don't know what will. so, once again, beware the terrible simplifiers and remember that through all its suffering, haiti is a country born of revolution, like our own, whose people sing of their forefathers breaking their shackles, proclaiming their right to equality, and shouting "progress or death." yes, there's still more death than progress. it's the bitter fruit of exploitation centuries old. but even i
every president from ronald reagan forward has embraced the corporate search for cheap labor. that has meant rewards for haiti's upper class while ordinary people were pushed further and further into squalor. haitian contractors producing mickey mouse and pocahontas pajamas for american companies under license with the walt disney company paid their sweat shop workers as little as $1 a day, while women sewing dresses for k-mart earned eleven cents an hour. a report by the national labor...
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. >> charlie:i may have said this to you john, if ronald reagan was running and got the same percentages of hispanics and african americans asians perhaps he would lose because they have grown so significantly. >> we have to be careful saying things like that one reason politics is interesting all of us, nothing stands still. new politicians, come forward. arguments get made issues rise to the surface. i don't think the republicans are in for a long-term too many. i grew up covering virginia. the idea virginia would be a swing state is stunning to me. the idea north carolina is swing state is surprising to even to you, charlie. there are no permanent line ntion politics. i think it's mistake feem in our business things as they exist now and extrapolate them too far in the future. >> charlie:is your interest and excitement you get from politics every bit as strong as it's always been? >> it is in the big picture. i think the character tion. people who are in politics, people i covered closely like bill clinton, the other characters that's what makings this business fascinating. so i still
. >> charlie:i may have said this to you john, if ronald reagan was running and got the same percentages of hispanics and african americans asians perhaps he would lose because they have grown so significantly. >> we have to be careful saying things like that one reason politics is interesting all of us, nothing stands still. new politicians, come forward. arguments get made issues rise to the surface. i don't think the republicans are in for a long-term too many. i grew up covering...
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he has also played it very well, ronald reagan's rule-- you never say anything negative about other republicans. he smiled all the way up. his focus has been on the press and on obama. and i just think in this field, he's looked good. he's never been scrutinized. he's never been engaged. now, of course that he's the front-runner, he will be. >> lehrer: what's your explanation? >> i take that and i would add one other thing, which is white, high school-educated voters. that's who the republican party is. they're a white, working class electorate. we have two prominent politicians in this country with very little pull with those voteres, barack obama, and mitt romney. so if you look at who wins the white working class, decade after decade, election after election, it's the republicans by 25 percentage points so that's the core of the party. they don't particularly like mitt romney. they don't relate to him. and newt gingrich comes in wit with-- he's a college professor who doesn't let you forget how much he knows but he happens to be doing a lot better with those people. they're looking for a hom
he has also played it very well, ronald reagan's rule-- you never say anything negative about other republicans. he smiled all the way up. his focus has been on the press and on obama. and i just think in this field, he's looked good. he's never been scrutinized. he's never been engaged. now, of course that he's the front-runner, he will be. >> lehrer: what's your explanation? >> i take that and i would add one other thing, which is white, high school-educated voters. that's who the...
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newt gingrich is not ronald reagan. i've known him for over 37 years, charlie and i'm not his favorite reporter to put it mildly. but i have a sense of how he thinks. and first of all he does do himself he views himself as an historic figure, churc churchild lincoln. a novel and movie doesn't end on this undeserving massachusetts moderate. that's why he won't quit. but he cited lincoln -- his analogy won't be lincoln it will be robert e. lee. you can't win a war. i don't think you can get to march 6 or 13th and be viable. he has to find his gettysberg. i think waiting for him is a big roll of the dice but what he needs now is michigan. if you look at mitt romney's native state and say this is my gettysberg i'm going there and of course it would be very uphill and let's not forget lee lost gettysberg. >> charlie: let's not forget rick santorum. is he going to stay in and therefore ruin annuity' newt's f trying to be the sole surviving conservative. >> katy, let me did he eve defe. >> charlie: do they say we've got to get
newt gingrich is not ronald reagan. i've known him for over 37 years, charlie and i'm not his favorite reporter to put it mildly. but i have a sense of how he thinks. and first of all he does do himself he views himself as an historic figure, churc churchild lincoln. a novel and movie doesn't end on this undeserving massachusetts moderate. that's why he won't quit. but he cited lincoln -- his analogy won't be lincoln it will be robert e. lee. you can't win a war. i don't think you can get to...
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you know, this is not a choice between mitt romney and ronald reagan. gwen: covering the week, martha raddatz of abc news, peter baker of the new york times, david wessel of the "wall street journal" and charles babington of "the associated press." >> award-winning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens, live from our nation's capitol, this is "washington week" with gwen ifill, produced in association with "national journal." corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> this rock has never stood still. since 1875 we've been there for our clients through good times and bad. when their needs changed, we were there to meet them. through the years, from insurance to investment management, from real estate to retirement solutions, we've developed new ideas for the financial challenges ahead. this rock has never stood still. and that's one thing that will never change. prudential. >> this is the at&t network, a living, breathing intelligence, bringing people together to bring new ideas to life. >> look, it's real simple. >> in
you know, this is not a choice between mitt romney and ronald reagan. gwen: covering the week, martha raddatz of abc news, peter baker of the new york times, david wessel of the "wall street journal" and charles babington of "the associated press." >> award-winning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens, live from our nation's capitol, this is "washington week" with gwen ifill, produced in association with "national journal."...
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ted kennedy and other written hatch had it, tip o'neill tunnel and ronald reagan. we need to respect that craft. >> one of the places you can look for leadership in america is at the city level is around the country. where i think we have trouble is still in the states where there's an eupbt kuwaited system. new york has 11,000 state agencies, for example. iowa had 99 counties, 35 miles apart, everyone was a separate auditor and clerk of courts and everything else municipalities are reaching out and shutting down local agencies and bringing in private enterprise and working out a compact with them to make it more efficient to free up revenue and to give people hope the system can be k work for them. so that's one of the ways we need to nurture our leaders. i think we've been drawing from the same well for too long in terms of the people who are in washington. >> david brooks, is this a center right country or a center left country? >> i think demonstrably a center right country. just do the polling. the pew research center asked people where are you on a scale from
ted kennedy and other written hatch had it, tip o'neill tunnel and ronald reagan. we need to respect that craft. >> one of the places you can look for leadership in america is at the city level is around the country. where i think we have trouble is still in the states where there's an eupbt kuwaited system. new york has 11,000 state agencies, for example. iowa had 99 counties, 35 miles apart, everyone was a separate auditor and clerk of courts and everything else municipalities are...
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it is said by people who look at politics in a smart way, that ronald reagan, many people voted for him, even though they did not agree with him, because they thought he expressed and he was a man of integrity, and expressed and said what he believed in. >> absolutely. i think that's important. ironically, the president was no wuss when it came to the auto bailout. remember how hated it was when he did it. but he did it because he believed it was right. he was no wuss on the financial bailout. it would have been very popular to short circility the financial bailout. he was no wuss on health care. his agents told him to go slow -- >> rose: rom emanual argued about it. >> he said this is the only time i'm going to have these majorities. this is the only time i can erase what is a national disgrace that this is the only nation that doesn't take care of the health care needs of its people. >> rose: could he have done it without an individual mandate which seemed to drive them crazy. >> you can't not have an individual mandate and ask health insurance companies to absorb people with preexist
it is said by people who look at politics in a smart way, that ronald reagan, many people voted for him, even though they did not agree with him, because they thought he expressed and he was a man of integrity, and expressed and said what he believed in. >> absolutely. i think that's important. ironically, the president was no wuss when it came to the auto bailout. remember how hated it was when he did it. but he did it because he believed it was right. he was no wuss on the financial...
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that is what saved ronald reagan. people still thought he was conservative but they felt that 1984 the country was better off than it had been in 1980. and they they were better off and their futures were brighter. and i think it is a question of is it working. and right now the most important number is not the pew poll or the gallop poll or those numbers, the most important is the one that lisa lynch was talking about, and that is the bureau of labor statistics, 9.7% unemployment going up. >> do you agree with that, that the truth today isn't health-care reform, it's that 9.7. >> if i were a congressman that's the key for people to worry b the blue dog democrats in moderate seats that could go. 9.7% today, there is, i would say the economic consensus is it will be not quite where we are in a year from now, but close. people expect it to be a long, slow recovery. if you are trying to run for re-election in 9.7, that not a good thing so mark's right, that is crucial. >> lehrer: speaking of speeches by president obama,
that is what saved ronald reagan. people still thought he was conservative but they felt that 1984 the country was better off than it had been in 1980. and they they were better off and their futures were brighter. and i think it is a question of is it working. and right now the most important number is not the pew poll or the gallop poll or those numbers, the most important is the one that lisa lynch was talking about, and that is the bureau of labor statistics, 9.7% unemployment going up....
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that was ronald reagan. that was jack kemp. that was mike huckabee. and i don't think anybody has grabbed that mantle. >> i would say the tenor of the electorate has changed dramatically from four years. it's much darker. much more pessimistic. maybe they're reacting the that. as a political analysis, being optimistic is rarely a bad thing. >> woodruff: michele bachmann did win the iowa straw poll some months ago. she was on the rise. are the polls showing, david, her support has just all bull disappeared. yet she's been out there. hit all 99 counties. what happened to her campaign? >> people looked at her and for whatever reason there was no big event but they decided not quite ready to be president. she's had some very humbling events where very few people have showed up. there's still the press gang around here. the crucial thing is she said she's going on. the lesson of newt gingrich's career is never drop out. because you never know what's going to happen. that also is good for mitt romney because all the anti-romneys will still be around apparen
that was ronald reagan. that was jack kemp. that was mike huckabee. and i don't think anybody has grabbed that mantle. >> i would say the tenor of the electorate has changed dramatically from four years. it's much darker. much more pessimistic. maybe they're reacting the that. as a political analysis, being optimistic is rarely a bad thing. >> woodruff: michele bachmann did win the iowa straw poll some months ago. she was on the rise. are the polls showing, david, her support has...